James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr.

James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. (12 August 1877-21 June 1952) was US Senator from New York (R) from 4 March 1915 to 4 March 1927, succeeding Elihu Root and preceding Robert F. Wagner. He also served in the US House of Representatives (R-NY 39) from 4 March 1933 to 3 January 1945 (succeeding Archie D. Sanders and preceding W. Sterling Cole), as well as from NY 41 from 3 January 1945 to 3 January 1951 (succeeding Joseph Mruk and preceding Harold C. Ostertag).

Biography
James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. was born in Geneseo, New York in 1877, the grandson of General James S. Wadsworth, who had been killed during the American Civil War. He served in the US Army in Puerto Rico during the Spanish-American War, and he served in the New York State Assembly from 1905 to 1910, in the US Senate from 1915 to 1927, and in the US House of Representatives from 1933 to 1951. He was a proponent of individual rights and was a strong opponent of Prohibition. In the House, he opposed isolationism, anti-lynching laws (on states' rights grounds), minimum wage laws, and much of Franklin D. Roosevelt's domestic policy. He died in 1952, a year after leaving the House.